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NSERC Discovery Grants: What do we know about the 2011 Math/Stats competition?
We are not used to see the normally confident scientists at the University of Toronto so agitated and angry at NSERC. Some of their mathematicians are screaming from the rooftops that the “NSERC Peer Review System is Broken for Mathematics“. … Continue reading
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